The Novels of Jane Austen.

£1,900 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and her epistolary novel Lady Susan (first published in 1871), together with Austen's abandoned novel The Watsons, and her collected letters. Winchester Edition, 12 vols; 8vo (21.5 x 15 cm); portrait frontispiece of the author to vol. I; the untrimmed fore-edges are spotted with a few encroachments to extreme edges of some leaves, some more notable spotting to preliminary and terminal leaves of some vols, otherwise very good; publisher's blue cloth, gilt spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with aforementioned spotting to these, bindings with slight bumping to spine-ends, mild rubbing to extremities, mild stain to upper board of Lady Susan, otherwise still very good with bright spines.

• Binding: Hardcover

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